Islam: Marriage

Follow @TheCircumvent Islamic tolerance: After suffering stab injuries, Balakrishnan ran towards a nearby mosque but collapsed in the veranda after stating that he was stabbed by Muhammad Iqbal… He was murdered three months after his marriage with the woman… TNN,… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent AFP, May 16, 2018. Sudanese police lashed a woman 75 times on Tuesday after a court found her guilty of marrying a man without her father’s consent, her lawyer and rights activists said. The woman, a native of… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Daily Pakistan, April 24, 2018. (Archive link) An Italian-Pakistani woman was killed by her father, brother and uncle in a case of honour killing in Pakistan’s Gujrat district, the media reported on Tuesday. Police said that 26-year-old Sana… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent AFP, April 24, 2018. (Archive link) Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday said that men living in Russia’s predominantly Muslim region can take as many as four wives, even though polygamy is banned in the country. Kadyrov, who… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent A stark reminder that Pakistan is a world away from America. Daily Pakistan, April 23, 2018. (Archive link) In an act of ruthless vengeance, two brothers cut off the nose of a man, who married their sister, on… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Dawn, April 23, 2018. A Christian woman, who was hospitalised with 90 per cent burns in a Lahore hospital after she came under an acid attack last week for reportedly turning down a Muslim man’s marriage proposal, succumbed… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent The Nation, April 17, 2018. (Archive link) A man was killed while his wife and mother sustained critical wounds in a gun attack at a house in Nawan Kot police precincts on Monday. The attackers are said to… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Behold, the Arab/Islamic mentality: A survey by U.N. Women, a United Nations agency for the empowerment of women, carried out in Rabat, the Moroccan capital, and in some neighboring cities found that 41 percent of the men surveyed… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Dawn, March 8, 2018. A 20-year-old woman in Muzaffargarh’s Kot Addu city was allegedly poisoned on Thursday by her relatives, who were unhappy with her for contracting a free-will marriage earlier this year. Deen Panah Station House Officer… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Dawn, February 14, 2018. A man was arrested for allegedly wounding his aunt and murdering her husband in an apparent “honour killing” in the Manghopir area of Karachi, police told DawnNews on Wednesday. According to Station House Officer… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent According to the Qur’an, the man is permitted to do this. Qur’an 4:3 (Yusuf Ali): “If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, Marry women of your choice, Two or three… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Marital rape (raping a woman when she doesn’t want to have sex) and wife beating are condoned in the Qur’an and ahadith. In the Qur’an, Allah tells men that women are a field to be used however the man… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent h/t TROP Dawn, February 4, 2018. A man in Attock allegedly gunned down four members of his family on Sunday after they were adamant that his elder daughter marry a suitor he did not approve of, police said.… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent This is your brain on Islam. TNN, January 31, 2018. A 37-year-old driver who had eloped with his married sister-in-law allegedly divorced his wife of 10 years over the phone through triple talaq on Monday. Kasim, who drives… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Daily Mail Online, January 24, 2018. A leading imam has been forced to step down after it emerged he left the mother of his children to run off with his new wife, who is 30 years younger than… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent From Wikipedia: “Majority of the population of Rajabazar is Sunni Muslim, mostly Urdu-speaking, descended from immigrants from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.” TNN, January 15, 2018. The office of an NGO in Rajabazar was ransacked after its members stalled a child… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Christian Post, January 10, 2018. The head of one of the most prominent Christian persecution watchdog organizations in the United States shared the horrifying story of a young Christian girl who was kidnapped last year while on her… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent The Express Tribune, January 11, 2018. A man allegedly killed his wife by dousing crude oil over her and then setting her ablaze in Islamabad on Thursday. Ambreen Bibi, the victim, was taken to the Pakistan Institute of… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent February 5: Arrested Hindustan Times, January 11, 2018. Kerala police on Wednesday arrested two people from North Paravur near Kochi over an alleged case of forced religious conversion of a 24-year-old woman and suspected plans to take her… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Christians in Pakistan, January 10, 2018. Sidra Masih 26, single, studied up to grade tenth, working in ‘Face Logic Ladies Salon’ with her eight years experience of beautician, was living with her family in Faisalabad. Her boss Madam… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Opindia, January 6, 2018. In a possible matter of love jihad, it has been reported that a Dalit girl has accused a Muslim youth of forcibly trying to convert and marry her. When she resisted the same, the… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Just following in the steps of their prophet: “The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with… Continue Reading →

Follow @TheCircumvent Dunya News, January 3, 2018. A terrible incident of honour killing took place in the slums of Karachi where father allegedly murdered his own daughter to save ‘family honour’ after she carried out love marriage. The incident took… Continue Reading →